Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Correction of Clcn1 alternative splicing reverses muscle fiber type transition in mice with myotonic dystrophy

  • Ningyan Hu,
  • Eunjoo Kim,
  • Layal Antoury,
  • Thurman M. Wheeler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37619-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In a double homozygous mouse model of myotonic dystrophy type 1, Hu et al. use antisense oligonucleotide correction of myotonia to induce a therapeutic shift from an overabundance of oxidative muscle fibers to mechanically stronger glycolytic fibers.